Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican IrregularsMacmillan, 1969 - 390 pages |
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... officers made on him , as re- quired both by regulation and custom . Apparently he spent his time hunting . After some time , when the post commander and his officers were beginning to fear that they had , somehow , incurred Crook's ...
... officers made on him , as re- quired both by regulation and custom . Apparently he spent his time hunting . After some time , when the post commander and his officers were beginning to fear that they had , somehow , incurred Crook's ...
Page 141
... officers was effected by giving Regular Army commissions to volunteer officers of the Spanish and Philippine wars . This had been done after the Civil War , when volunteer officers were commissioned in all grades from second lieutenant ...
... officers was effected by giving Regular Army commissions to volunteer officers of the Spanish and Philippine wars . This had been done after the Civil War , when volunteer officers were commissioned in all grades from second lieutenant ...
Page 305
... officers , twelve noncommissioned officers and twenty - nine privates for duty , a total of forty - three officers and men . Troop K had present for duty one officer and thirty - nine enlisted men . Several men and an officer from Troop ...
... officers , twelve noncommissioned officers and twenty - nine privates for duty , a total of forty - three officers and men . Troop K had present for duty one officer and thirty - nine enlisted men . Several men and an officer from Troop ...
Contents
The Background and Beginningthe 1850s | 1 |
Mexico | 3 |
Robin Hood on the Rio Grande | 16 |
Copyright | |
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